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Articles · Oct 2024

Breaking Free: Why 'Equality' Is a Patriarchal Lie

Amelia Hruby (Based on Breaking Free book)

New book 'Breaking Free' reveals how 'equality' is a racist, patriarchal ideal that keeps women and marginalized communities chasing an unattainable goal. True liberation requires not equality, but freedom.

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Articles · Jul 2024

Project 2025: A Dystopian Future for Women's Rights in America

Feminist Majority Foundation

Led by the Heritage Foundation and supported by over 100 far-right organizations, 'Project 2025' is an 887-page policy blueprint calling for the deletion of terms like 'gender equality' and 'reproductive rights' from federal regulations. This document is a comprehensive declaration of war on women's rights.

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Articles · Mar 2024

Patriarchy Is Regaining Ground: UN Chief Warns of Unprecedented Threats to Women's Rights

United Nations

UN Secretary-General António Guterres issues stark warning at the 2024 Commission on the Status of Women: 'Patriarchy is far from vanquished; it is regaining ground.' From Afghanistan to America, from digital spaces to political stages, women's rights are under systematic attack and decades of progress are being reversed.

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Articles · Feb 2024

How Feminism Ends?

Ginevra Davis

This article starts from bodily experience to critique contemporary feminism's over-abstraction of 'gender,' exploring the inescapability of the female body, the predicament of gender theory, and the tension between women's freedom and self-exhaustion.

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Articles · Jan 2024

The 4B Movement: Political Practice as Radical Negativity

The Cut

The 4B movement (no marriage, no childbirth, no dating, no sex with men) is not merely a defensive retreat from extreme patriarchy, but a courageous 'political strike' aimed at paralyzing the mechanisms of patriarchal reproduction.

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Articles · May 2023

Online Opposition to Gender Equality

UN Women Asia and the Pacific

Research from Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines maps how anti-feminist narratives circulate online, showing that digital misogyny is organized through culture, platform incentives, and political identity rather than isolated bad behavior.

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Articles · Dec 2022

South Korea's Gender Gap: The Paradox of Inequality and Backlash

Haeryun Kang

An analysis of South Korea's complex gender landscape, where deep-seated structural inequality coexists with a powerful anti-feminist movement and political shifts that threaten existing protections for women.

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Articles · Feb 2020

Fighting the Tyranny of 'Niceness': Why We Need Difficult Women

Helen Lewis

This article critiques the expectations of 'perfection' and 'likability' in contemporary feminism, calling for recognition of the complexity and contradictions within feminism, and embracing those 'difficult women' who are nonconformist, hard to categorize, but drive change.

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Articles · Mar 2018

The Crisis in Modern Masculinity

Pankaj Mishra

This article traces the historical evolution of modern masculinity, revealing the politicization and pathologization of the 'strong man' fantasy on a global scale, and critiques how patriarchy shapes oppressive roles for both men and women.

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Articles · Nov 2006

The Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists

African Feminist Forum

Adopted in Accra in 2006, the Charter defines African feminism as a political commitment to dismantling patriarchy while demanding accountability inside feminist organizations themselves.

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Articles · Jan 1984

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Audre Lorde

In this electrifying speech, Audre Lorde lays the groundwork for Black feminism and intersectionality. She challenges academia and white feminism for relying on patriarchal logic, arguing that merely seeking reform within existing systems while excluding marginalized women ensures oppression remains intact.